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to-day is turned to the possibility of invasion,
We know what we ought to do if the Germans try to estab- lish a foothold here, but it may help us if we know something more of the sort of things the Germans expect to do.
I saw the Germans coming as in- vaders into the Norwegian expital of Orlo. I saw something of their war tactics, and I heard a whole lot more from Norwegians inadquately armed, who had tried to stem parachute troops or hold vital points with rifla and bayonet. "When we saw the Getmana come shouting out of the wooda, spraying us with their Tum- my guns, we fell like men armed with bows and arrows," said a Nor- wegian to me. +
I understood exactly what he mennt, for 1 had seen the Nazl troops marching in column of three,
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two ranks with their Stubbs Road. riflex dung carelessly anywhere. Their main weapon was the Tommy gun held ready for instant use at the hip. You do not need to sight it or load it aflet every five rounds. You an-et go with a spray of bullets when you sight danger at 50 or 60 yards. It is their close quarters weapon." like the bayonet is still ours.
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Portuguese Community nounces that a Requiem Mass for the repose of the soul of the late Governor of Macau Dr. Artur Tamagnini de Sousa Barbosa, will be held at the Roman Catholic Cathedral, Caine Road, on Friday, 23rd August, at 0
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ACKNOWLEDGMENT
The family of the late Jeronimo Augusto da Silva (of Manila) ender heartfelt thanks to rela tives and friends for expressions of condolence, floral tributes and attendance at the funeral.
DEATH
VESSOONA: At Kobe, at 7 a.m. on August 22, 1940, N. J. Vessoona. (Shanghai papers please copy).
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Propaganda's Poison“
Open Moves Avoided
I WILL emphasise this we other way. In Narvik, the Germana were terrified of open movements on hillsides or exposed positions no matter how far they were from their enemies they knew those enemies were Norve- glans.
The reason, he explained, was that every Norwegian appeared to be a crock shot, and many a German trolling, as he thought, well out of range was afterwards found with a bullet clean through his forehead be tween the eyes.
August 23, 1940.
The Ventriloquist and His Dolls
U.S. PLANES
ROM the day Hitler's robot armies swept across Flan- ders and awakened the United States to the real)- mation that the war is now on their doorstep, the most fantastic stories, speeches and promises about America's air capacity have been flooding into this country.
President Roosevelt announced a scheme for building 50,000 war- planes a year.
Firms like the Glen. L. Martin That sort of academic, re- Company issue a statement that fighting gave the Germans in Nor- vik the tiers. They avoided it at all costs: Once they could break cover at 60 yards fring hundreds of bullets to the enemy's dozens, they were happy.
if you hear of parachute troops any It is a point worth remembering,
where in your neighbourhood. Heroles of fong-distance markanan- ship or close-quarters Aghting will not kill them.
They will creep up on you, or wait for you to come Into range. If they can. If neither is possible they will run.
Bomber. Support..............
back to the LET us come
marching
Inlo
column
Oslo. Behind them were a couple
of fles still with their rifes and personal k but also carrying the various parts of two light machine- guns. Behind
them came
round-
Propaganda is one of the deadliest weapons of warfare, as It is one of the oldest. Because it has been used to an unprecedented extent in this war there may be a tendency to re- gard it as a novel method of aver coming a foc. This war may Indeed shouldered youths carrying the ma be the first in which the use of pro-machine-gun ammunition.
ximum possible in the Way of
puganda has had such momentous results; but that is attributable to the greater facilities which exist to-day for the dissemination of propaganda. The loud speaker which can blure out its specious arguments to the foe's soldiers where lines of battle are facing each other at close quar- ters, the aeroplane which can acalter leaflets from a great height for the
an
they have completed a specification for a new bomber far more effec- tive than anything flying now, and that the Allies are taking delivery of every one of these aircraft, which can be turned out during the next eighteen months.
Come to Realities
Every one of these statements merely raises a sad smlie among people connected with the aircraft industry here.
All of them have the stamp of dream-projects bearing no relation to hard facts: ---------
But since there is a danger of raising too many false hopes among the general public about the extent of American air aid, it may be just as well to examine the true position of the American aircraft industry.
The statements quoted above can be dismissed very simply.
With regard to Roosevelt's scheme
the way to
-here are
the facts
Lo build 50,000 machines a year from scratch, it has only to be remem- bered that Germany. after some years of preparation and with the whole of its industry geared to air craft production, has never got past 18.000 aeroplanes a year,
In the light of that fact, Henry Ford's promise can be set down as just another bright piece of over- opumism.
So can the Martin Company's an- nouncement, far if the Allies get one
elded to standardise on two main types in this new order,
One is a new Douglas two-motor attack-bomber (of which 1,500 have been ordered), and a new Brewster
mounting shell fighter
and machine-gunt.
According to John H. Jouétt, President of the Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce, 'America has 45 aeroplane planta, of which 23 are working on military orders.
little country of ours has not less It is common knowledge that this of these new bombers, still on the drawing board, within the next than that number of plants, which 18 months, it will be miracle of have been in full production over a production speed.
long period.
If the United States is going to turn out 50,000 warplanes a year. from that number of plants, most of them just starting, what must our factories be doing? Sixty thousand? seventy thousand? We wish they were!
Shadow Factories
Last March, the United States As sistant Secretary for War told the country that output in the present year would be 17,000 sir-frames. But a little over a month later, Major General Arnold, Chief of the Army Air Corps, testined before a Congress Committee that only about 0,000 planes would be produced by the year ending June 30, 1941.
Of course, the United States will Last January, he said, the Presi- make additions to its existing fac- dent called for an immediate mini- tories. Roosevelt has ordered the mum increase of 3,000 warplanes. setting up of 30 shadow factories, Not one of these machines has yet financed by the Government, to been delivered to the Army,
build thirty aeroplanea each per Last week, prominent speakers in month.
Twenty aeroplanes could
have they were, bombers would have been America were clamouring for every The Government has done an- carried all the men I saw occupying on
machine-gun and available aeroplane and pilot to be other good thing' in acquiring all Olo on the first day, Suppose they blast out their had been parachuted. Within half and other machines would have been shows a spirit for which we are and leasing them out to factories so possible attackers, sent at once to the Allies. That motor patents from constructors hour if they had been esta-parachuting applies of all sorts to
grateful, some lonely moor or them.
as to speed up production and to re- blished, on
But United States air chiefs, testi- duce the number of types. Command Welsh valley-the High
W. F. Hartin would have known
There is exactly where
fying before the same Congress
a typical · American Committee, said that of the total of “b
"bigger and better"
grandeur 2.700 warplanes in the United States about their air expansion schemes. army, only 52-all bombers were But they all take time, not obsolete.
edification of the foe's civilian popu- FUNNY SIDE UP
lation, and above all the richly subsidised propaganda department which can pour convincing sophis- trics into cunningly chosen channels, are but the ultra-modern adjuncts which permit the application of new lechnique to an old art.
The savage warrior who painted a hideously fierce expression on his face in bygone ages was employing one of the subtlest kinds of psycho- logical propaganda, although neither of these polysyllabic words to de- | scribe his” tactics had then been in- vented. The idea in his primitive though cunning brain was to score all the fight out' of his enemy; but it was propaganda, and crudely effectual propaganda, all the same. Put into modern English, the idea he wished to convey was, "You can see what a fearsome 'fellow I`um, and how utterly hopeless is your chance now up of successfully fighting against me. Betler give up the unequal struggle without further resistance, lest worst befall you." Propaganda of this
kind, in various forms, has persisted through the ages.
History will record it as one of the most amazing features of the Second World War that Germany was able to overrun practically half Europe by sheer bluff for that is what it amounts to. Austria fell bloodlessly, conquered not by the engines of war but by a
the legend of Ger- many's Invincibility. Czec
Czechoslovakia, Danzig, Memel, went much the same.
Way. Denmark, Norway, Holland,
Bad Belgium all succumbed to the carefully diffused propaganda that Germany's will was an inexorable as fate, and her army as irresistible,
PRESCRIPTIONS
By Abner Dean
ABNER DEAN
**I don't understand these new-fangled doctors; Mrs. Plooper
this prescription is written in pig-Latin!"
Already the more sober-minded production experts are talking about 1942 before "effective de-- expanded industry.
Good, but not enough liveries" begin to flow out from the
America has turned out some good stuff which we have been glad to buy.
By that time, we hope, the war will be over
There is another-point It has
been stated in America that in the The Curtis 752, for instance.
new orders given by the Allies (for though not us good as, our Burri-
such aircraft as the Douglas bom- canes and Spitfires, has done great ber and the Brewster fighter, for work for the French Air Force on instance), the price of their release the Western Front.
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to us is that all expense in the The Lockheed: Hudsón,
development and design "of these general purpose bomber, has been a machines is to be added on to their
great help to our Coastal Command.
But the trouble is that not enough cost to us.
of them have been delivered. In
fact, nothing like the amount. "Don't Rely on U.S.A ordered and promised.
On May 17, the Allied Purchasing This money is to be spent on new Commission announced that up to designs for the United States Air that date 1,000 aircraft of all types Force. Thus wo w hind been ordered from the United America's new air armada,
pay for Btates at a cost of £183,000,000. A
The moral in all this is clear. Wo lot of these orders were placed early must not rely too much
од last year but where are they?
ald from America. Since January 1 this year, Britain has received only about £2,000,000 worth of aeroplanes.
France, needing aircraft more than we do, has dong rather better It has received £8,000,000 worth.
Note the Total
vast alr
We must not because of optimis- tie, though well-meant, promises re- lax for one moment our drive to attain air superiority with our own resources.
We can do 18 easily with Canada and the home factories, now that the muddles, the waste and the al- most criminal lethargy of the past. year are cleared up and resolved.
But the total of £10,000,000 makes. And we will,
poor showing against that original from Uncle Sam, we shall any ob For all practical help we can got £162,000,000.00 per
We have fust ordered another earnest "thank you" but it is on £150,000,000 worth.
ourselves that we must rely for the Probably it is because of dsilvery planes that must sweep: Goering's
with the experiences
previous Air Force from the skies orders that the authorities bere he
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